Bug#42052: var/spool/mail and /var/mail

1999-10-27 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:28 -0400 1999-10-26, Raul Miller wrote: It looks good. It looks like appropriate links are implemented as well. I put some symlinking code into the libc6 postinst because /usr/include/paths.h defines _PATH_MAILDIR to /var/mail, and there is quite a bit of software about that uses that

Bug#42052: var/spool/mail and /var/mail

1999-10-26 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:39:06AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > We spent a lot of time on this list thrashing out the /var/spool/mail > vs. /var/mail issue. It would be a shame if it came to nothing due to > a lack of seconds. Please check up this final proposal (included > below) and second it

Bug#42052: var/spool/mail and /var/mail

1999-10-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Alexander Koch wrote: > The change would have to be in the bootdiscs first, right? base-files. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]h

Bug#42052: var/spool/mail and /var/mail

1999-10-26 Thread Alexander Koch
On Tue, 26 October 1999 11:39:06 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > We spent a lot of time on this list thrashing out the /var/spool/mail > vs. /var/mail issue. It would be a shame if it came to nothing due to > a lack of seconds. Please check up this final proposal (included > below) and second it if

Bug#42052: var/spool/mail and /var/mail

1999-10-26 Thread Julian Gilbey
We spent a lot of time on this list thrashing out the /var/spool/mail vs. /var/mail issue. It would be a shame if it came to nothing due to a lack of seconds. Please check up this final proposal (included below) and second it if you think it appropriate. Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Bug#42052: /var/spool/mail

1999-09-06 Thread Joseph Carter
I figured since it actually seems like there are no major outstanding objections to this proposal that I probably should rewrite it taking into account everything said till now. The general idea: 1. We cannot just make use of /var/spool/mail illegal right now. 2. New packages may use /var/spool